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title: Football tells the story: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Irel… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Football tells the story: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland play as four teams, because the UK is made of four nations. Who acts: Football, England. A sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 3

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Football tells the story: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland play as four teams, because the UK is made of four nations.

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**Who acts:** Football, England · **What happens:** tell, play, make · **To what, where:** story, UK · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Football, England), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:3
# text = Football tells the story: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland play as four teams, because the UK is made of four nations.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	Football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Football | the story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** | present | England and Scotland and Wales and Northern |  |  |  |  | as four teams | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | the UK |  |  |  | of four nations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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